▲ 39 ▼ Instagram’s Threads surpasses 100 million users (www.theverge.com) submitted 3 years ago by developerjustin@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social 79 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] small44@lemmy.world 27 points 3 years ago (2 children) How many active user? I'm one of those people who used the app for few minutes before removing it permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Cat@kbin.social 6 points 3 years ago (2 children) @small44, did you already have an Instagram account and get automatically signed up? Just curious if that is what they are doing to get so many users. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ggadget6@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) What they're doing is making it very easy to sign up. You just need to go to your Instagram and click a few buttons and you've created a threads account. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Cat@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago Then my guess is a lot of users are seeing something new and clicking along out of curiosity. Then they walk away and don't look at it again :-) permalink fedilink source parent [–] small44@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago I believe that it's creating the threads account based on your Instagram credentials just like you get signed up on many sites without your Google account permalink fedilink source parent [–] marmar04@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) I know my friends posted at least something when it launched then went along with their lives like nothing happened. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] yesdogishere@kbin.social 8 points 3 years ago (2 children) Threads needs to be BANNED from lemmy and kbin and Federation whatever mindboggle NOW. FIGHT BACK!!! DESTROY THE HORRID THREADS, MUSK AND ZUCC!!!!! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] MxM111@kbin.social 12 points 3 years ago (1 child) Threads do not do posts. They do twits, or what is called on kbin microblogs. As such Lemmy can not be affected and kbin can only be affected in the microblog section. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TrollerXD@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) what about mastodon? last time i looked there it looked very similiar to twitter so permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MxM111@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago Yes, but reply above me was specifically about lemmy and kbin. Mastodon will be affected, unless they defederate. permalink fedilink source parent [–] joshch@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago* (2 children) The point of ActivityPub should be to become as widespread as possible so as to proliferate the standard and eliminate silos and walled gardens--including Facebook and its ilk. It would be an unambiguously good thing if Meta's (and Tumblr's) move towards interoperability cascades to the other big platforms like Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit. You could follow (or choose not to follow) users on any platform you want, from any platform you want. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] hetscop@kbin.social 5 points 3 years ago Having a single player control most of the market - like meta - means that they will have a lot of sway over how the protocol is developed. This is propably a bad thing since meta har different goals than people currently using the fediverse and also have financial incentives to get people to move over to their platforms instead. permalink fedilink source parent [–] 520@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago The problem is, walled gardens helps lock-in users. Meta and Twitter et al want lock-in. It only takes the CEO to decide they don't wanna play nicely and boom, back to walled gardens again. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Cat@kbin.social 6 points 3 years ago (2 children) @small44, did you already have an Instagram account and get automatically signed up? Just curious if that is what they are doing to get so many users. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ggadget6@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) What they're doing is making it very easy to sign up. You just need to go to your Instagram and click a few buttons and you've created a threads account. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Cat@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago Then my guess is a lot of users are seeing something new and clicking along out of curiosity. Then they walk away and don't look at it again :-) permalink fedilink source parent [–] small44@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago I believe that it's creating the threads account based on your Instagram credentials just like you get signed up on many sites without your Google account permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ggadget6@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) What they're doing is making it very easy to sign up. You just need to go to your Instagram and click a few buttons and you've created a threads account. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Cat@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago Then my guess is a lot of users are seeing something new and clicking along out of curiosity. Then they walk away and don't look at it again :-) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Cat@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago Then my guess is a lot of users are seeing something new and clicking along out of curiosity. Then they walk away and don't look at it again :-) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] small44@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago I believe that it's creating the threads account based on your Instagram credentials just like you get signed up on many sites without your Google account permalink fedilink source parent
[–] marmar04@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) I know my friends posted at least something when it launched then went along with their lives like nothing happened. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] yesdogishere@kbin.social 8 points 3 years ago (2 children) Threads needs to be BANNED from lemmy and kbin and Federation whatever mindboggle NOW. FIGHT BACK!!! DESTROY THE HORRID THREADS, MUSK AND ZUCC!!!!! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] MxM111@kbin.social 12 points 3 years ago (1 child) Threads do not do posts. They do twits, or what is called on kbin microblogs. As such Lemmy can not be affected and kbin can only be affected in the microblog section. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TrollerXD@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) what about mastodon? last time i looked there it looked very similiar to twitter so permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MxM111@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago Yes, but reply above me was specifically about lemmy and kbin. Mastodon will be affected, unless they defederate. permalink fedilink source parent [–] joshch@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago* (2 children) The point of ActivityPub should be to become as widespread as possible so as to proliferate the standard and eliminate silos and walled gardens--including Facebook and its ilk. It would be an unambiguously good thing if Meta's (and Tumblr's) move towards interoperability cascades to the other big platforms like Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit. You could follow (or choose not to follow) users on any platform you want, from any platform you want. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] hetscop@kbin.social 5 points 3 years ago Having a single player control most of the market - like meta - means that they will have a lot of sway over how the protocol is developed. This is propably a bad thing since meta har different goals than people currently using the fediverse and also have financial incentives to get people to move over to their platforms instead. permalink fedilink source parent [–] 520@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago The problem is, walled gardens helps lock-in users. Meta and Twitter et al want lock-in. It only takes the CEO to decide they don't wanna play nicely and boom, back to walled gardens again. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] yesdogishere@kbin.social 8 points 3 years ago (2 children) Threads needs to be BANNED from lemmy and kbin and Federation whatever mindboggle NOW. FIGHT BACK!!! DESTROY THE HORRID THREADS, MUSK AND ZUCC!!!!! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] MxM111@kbin.social 12 points 3 years ago (1 child) Threads do not do posts. They do twits, or what is called on kbin microblogs. As such Lemmy can not be affected and kbin can only be affected in the microblog section. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TrollerXD@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) what about mastodon? last time i looked there it looked very similiar to twitter so permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MxM111@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago Yes, but reply above me was specifically about lemmy and kbin. Mastodon will be affected, unless they defederate. permalink fedilink source parent [–] joshch@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago* (2 children) The point of ActivityPub should be to become as widespread as possible so as to proliferate the standard and eliminate silos and walled gardens--including Facebook and its ilk. It would be an unambiguously good thing if Meta's (and Tumblr's) move towards interoperability cascades to the other big platforms like Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit. You could follow (or choose not to follow) users on any platform you want, from any platform you want. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] hetscop@kbin.social 5 points 3 years ago Having a single player control most of the market - like meta - means that they will have a lot of sway over how the protocol is developed. This is propably a bad thing since meta har different goals than people currently using the fediverse and also have financial incentives to get people to move over to their platforms instead. permalink fedilink source parent [–] 520@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago The problem is, walled gardens helps lock-in users. Meta and Twitter et al want lock-in. It only takes the CEO to decide they don't wanna play nicely and boom, back to walled gardens again. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MxM111@kbin.social 12 points 3 years ago (1 child) Threads do not do posts. They do twits, or what is called on kbin microblogs. As such Lemmy can not be affected and kbin can only be affected in the microblog section. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TrollerXD@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) what about mastodon? last time i looked there it looked very similiar to twitter so permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MxM111@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago Yes, but reply above me was specifically about lemmy and kbin. Mastodon will be affected, unless they defederate. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TrollerXD@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) what about mastodon? last time i looked there it looked very similiar to twitter so permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MxM111@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago Yes, but reply above me was specifically about lemmy and kbin. Mastodon will be affected, unless they defederate. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MxM111@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago Yes, but reply above me was specifically about lemmy and kbin. Mastodon will be affected, unless they defederate. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] joshch@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago* (2 children) The point of ActivityPub should be to become as widespread as possible so as to proliferate the standard and eliminate silos and walled gardens--including Facebook and its ilk. It would be an unambiguously good thing if Meta's (and Tumblr's) move towards interoperability cascades to the other big platforms like Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit. You could follow (or choose not to follow) users on any platform you want, from any platform you want. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] hetscop@kbin.social 5 points 3 years ago Having a single player control most of the market - like meta - means that they will have a lot of sway over how the protocol is developed. This is propably a bad thing since meta har different goals than people currently using the fediverse and also have financial incentives to get people to move over to their platforms instead. permalink fedilink source parent [–] 520@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago The problem is, walled gardens helps lock-in users. Meta and Twitter et al want lock-in. It only takes the CEO to decide they don't wanna play nicely and boom, back to walled gardens again. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] hetscop@kbin.social 5 points 3 years ago Having a single player control most of the market - like meta - means that they will have a lot of sway over how the protocol is developed. This is propably a bad thing since meta har different goals than people currently using the fediverse and also have financial incentives to get people to move over to their platforms instead. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 520@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago The problem is, walled gardens helps lock-in users. Meta and Twitter et al want lock-in. It only takes the CEO to decide they don't wanna play nicely and boom, back to walled gardens again. permalink fedilink source parent